Sentences with phrase «prayers of paul»

So if someone is looking for written prayers which can help guide our own prayer life and helps us know how to pray according to the will of God, the prayers of Paul are always good places to start.

Just like the prayers of Jesus and the prayers of Paul, praying the Psalms helps us see that prayer is an ongoing and open conversation with God.

In previous posts, we have seen that both the prayers of Jesus and the prayers of Paul were conversational prayers with God.

Or any of the numerous prayers of Paul found throughout his letters, such as the one at the end of Ephesians 3.

This is the continual, unceasing, fervent prayer of Paul for his brothers and sisters in Christ.

Not exact matches

In the book of Philippians, the Apostle Paul writes «Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

A gentler mercy followed in which pulse and breath joined in the kind of visceral, somatic prayer that felt upheld by the grace St Paul renders, «The Spirit intercedes for us in sighs too deep for words...» And, in awe, it occurred to me that my very breath proclaims the presence of the God who breathes me.

The move was described as «an answer to prayer» by Tearfund's director of advocacy, Paul Cook.

@ Bizarre: considering Paul encourages prayer repeatedly in Romans & other of his letters, it seems you've missed his basic meaning.

How odd that Paul of Tarsus didn't even know «The Lord's Prayer» (Romans: «we do not know how to pray or what to ask for»), words allegedly right out of the mouth of Jesus (according to Matthew & Luke).

The Harvard president said she would allow the black Mass to continue, citing the value of free expression on campus, but planned attend a prayer ceremony Monday night at St. Paul's Church in Cambridge.

The Mormon people are like those of whom Paul spoke in Romans 10, «Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God... is that they might be saved.

Now in the context, Paul has one thing in mind which he wants prayer for, and it is for boldness in preaching of the Word, and specifically, preaching the Gospel.

Also, Jesus was a man of prayer and often stole away time to pray, and yet Paul — in all his talk on prayer — never appeals to Jesus as a model for praying.

I realized this as I reflected on these texts — Solomon's prayer for wisdom rather than riches, Jesus» parables of treasure and pearl and fishes, and Paul's affirmation that God works for good with (or for) those who love him.

Had I shared with them the two parts of Paul's benediction, the blessing or prayer with which he ended 2 Corinthians, they would have understood it.

Paul tells the Philippians, «Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ» (Philippians 4:6 - 7).

Francis prayed that he might be given the gift of suffering as Christ had suffered, and his prayer was granted in the form of the stigmata — another Franciscan novum in the history of the Christian spiritual life, although it was anticipated in Paul's confession to the Galatians that he bore on his body «the marks of Jesus» (Gal.

This is a profound insight, and is well explored in this booklet, along withan understanding of John Paul's own courage and inner strength, his deep immersion in prayer and his confidence in God and in the motherly protection of Mary.

John Paul was not just personally holy and personally interesting - poet, philosopher, essayist, linguist, a man with a gift for friendship, a man of prayer, a courageous man with massive moral integrity matched with humour and greatintellectual gifts.

And say a prayer for all the final editing and production of the big book on Paul!

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

I believe with all my heart, after thousands of hours reading the Bible under prayer so my understanding would be inspired by the Holy Spirit, that the Mormon church is indeed a satanic cult - it's one of the «other gospels» Paul talks about in Galatians 1:8.

We are to wage the warfare of faith, our only weapons those Paul speaks of: prayer, the Word of God, the justice of God, the zeal with which the gospel of peace endows us, (I consider «zeal» most particularly important; the term means military courage, such as characterized the Zealots.

I note he did not answer Pauls prayer to take the thorn out of his side.

Both are prayers for God to do in the lives of the Ephesians exactly what Paul was telling them to do.

This prayer of his was started in 3:1, but Paul got off on a tangent for the next 12 verses.

But the usual and normal Scriptural method, as seen in all of Christ's prayers and all of Peter's prayers and all of Paul's prayers — including this one here — is to pray to God the Father, through Jesus Christ (which is why many of us say, «In Jesus Name»), and in the Holy Spirit.

My only prayer for alot of you is that he gives you a personal experience like he did to Paul.

If the Church in Corinth had been taught by the Apostle Paul that the manner in which one is saved is to pray (verbally or nonverbally) a sincere, penitent, prayer / petition to God, such as a version of the Sinner's Prayer, why does this passage of God's Holy Word discuss baptisms for the dead and not «prayers for the dead», specifically, praying a version of the Sinner's Prayer for theprayer / petition to God, such as a version of the Sinner's Prayer, why does this passage of God's Holy Word discuss baptisms for the dead and not «prayers for the dead», specifically, praying a version of the Sinner's Prayer for thePrayer, why does this passage of God's Holy Word discuss baptisms for the dead and not «prayers for the dead», specifically, praying a version of the Sinner's Prayer for thePrayer for the dead?

When Paul prays for the Philippians, he gives the specifics of that prayer.

Paul's prayer is that the eyes of our heart may be enlightened.

The prayer of the Church as taught by Paul was no longer, «Let grace come and let this world pass away.

But if this is true, it is difficult to know what the «supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings» which Paul urges Timothy to offer on behalf of «kings and all who are in high positions» amount to.

In different ways, Jesus and Paul are heralding the inbreaking of God's rule on earth, the fulfillment of all our hopes and prayers when we pray — alas, sometimes mindlessly — that God's kingdom come on earth and God's will be done on earth (in Washington, D.C., Afghanistan and Iraq, in affluent suburbs and in blighted inner cities).

«There is not one shred of evidence of a validated conversion to heterosexual orientation through therapy or Christian conversion and prayer,» he writes.48 At the other end of the spectrum, Richard Lovelace claims that homosexuals can, and indeed are being healed and transformed in their sexual orientation, as Paul himself asserts (1 Cor.

Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters ofPrayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters ofprayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters ofprayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.

As Paul relied on the prayers of his fellow Christians (2 Corinthians 1:10 «11), so we benefit from our prayers for one another.

This was always the aim of Pope Paul VI who said in 1969 «that the same prayer, expressed in so manydifferent languages [might] ascend to the heavenly Father...» (Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Missal 3 April 1969).

When a girl who can tell fortunes starts following St. Paul around as he goes to prayer in Philippi, shouting that these men are servants of God and have come to tell the citizens how to be saved, Paul loses his temper and tells the spirit that gave her this insight to come out.

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about it.

St. Paul is shown surrounded not only by images from the stories in Acts, such as his Jewish prayer shawl and a ship, but also by church buildings from all ages, including the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

Summorum Pontificum, still not fully implemented in the Church in Great Britain, is another step towards the revitalisation, or renewal, of the Catholic Church, as it encourages a depth of prayer, reflection, true worship and reverence that the many outdoor Masses of Blessed John Paul II lacked almost to a fault.

Small wonder that Blessed John Paul, shot in a crowded St Peter's Square in 1981, recognised himself as the Pope in this vision: the vast numbers of Christian martyrs of the bloodstained 20th century were epitomised here, with Mary's plea for prayer and penance echoing authentically across the ruins of so manycities in two world wars and other conflicts.

Paul closes Ephesians 3 with another prayer that using the riches God has provided; God will do amazing and incredible things in the church through the lives of the believers who use these riches for God's glory.

You could see John Paul at the altar and the intensity of his prayer was palpable.

The short descriptions of Paul's prayers provide a small glimpse into what Paul prayed for and how he prayed.

According to Acts 13:1 - 3, Paul and Barnabas were commissioned for their missionary journey by prayer and the laying on of hands.

There are few examples of Paul actually praying in the New Testament, but there are several places in Paul's letters where he writes about his prayer requests and how he prays (See Rom 15:5 - 6, 13; Eph 1:16 - 19; 3:16 - 19; Php 1:9 - 11; Col 1:9 - 12; 2 Thess 1:11 - 12).

Could this not have been the prophetic insight of Pope Paul VI which moved him to insist that this ancient prayer be retained in the Roman Rite?